A people who are afraid to demand respect for their rights, can have no rights worthy to be respected. –Benjamin Hill, Speech at Milledgeville [November 15, 1860]
HORNBERGER’S BLOG
May 16, 2024 Where Is the Compassion in Social Security?
One of the things that has long fascinated me about Social Security is how its proponents portray themselves as “caring and compassionate” for favoring this socialist program. Social Security, like all other welfare-state programs, uses the coercive apparatus of the federal government — specifically taxation on income — to take money from younger people to give it to older people. There is nothing …
Social Justice Fallacies
by George Leef
Now 93, Thomas Sowell continues to produce excellent work — work that would help the United States escape from the grip of …
America Needs a Great Reset
by Laurence M. Vance
For several years now, and especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 “pandemic” fiasco, we have been told that the world needs…
Our Discovery of Libertarianism
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Richard and I talk about our personal journeys toward the discovery of …
The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny
by John W. Whitehead
The American governmental scheme is sliding ever closer towards a pervasive authoritarianism. The American people, the permanent…
Which Way Forward for America?
by Jacob Hornberger
With the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, the American people brought into existence the most unusual way of life in history, one that led …